Davis W. Baird, dean of the South Carolina Honors College and the Louise Fry Scudder Professor in Philosophy at the University of South Carolina, has been selected[1] as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Clark University.

James F. Canniff, the vice president for academic and student affairs at Suffolk County Community College, in New York, has been appointed[2] as vice president of academic affairs & student services at Bunker Hill Community College.

The Rev. Timothy R. Lannon, S.J., president of Saint Joseph’s University, in Pennsylvania, has been named[3] president of Creighton University, in Nebraska.

Geri H. Malandra, former senior vice president for leadership, membership, and policy research at the American Council on Education and vice chancellor for strategic management at the University of Texas System, has been chosen[4] as provost at Kaplan University.

M. Lee Pelton, president of Willamette University, in Oregon, has been named[5] president of Emerson College, in Massachusetts.